Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 910 The Mole's Intentions

While I was thinking, an email came through on my phone; it was from Dongya.

This guy...didn't he finish what he was saying?
The email reads: "Fishing requires a fish to bite the hook; the angler can't simply throw the fish back in. Fishing is a skill, and so is throwing things into the water. I'm good at throwing away trash, but I don't know much about fishing, so I can't offer any advice."

Shangguan Yan immediately understood the meaning of these words.

The fishing that Dongya mentioned is about stripping things out of the cycle of history and removing them from the forbidden consciousness outside of the cycle of history. The other thing, throwing away garbage, is about stuffing the things that have already been stripped out back into the forbidden consciousness of a certain period of history. These are two different kinds of forbidden consciousness.

The act of "biting the hook" in fishing refers to a behavior, meaning that for the other party to catch the fish from the water, contact must occur. Although the specific method is unknown, contact will definitely happen, which is an important breakthrough.

Shangguan Yan read the contents again and sighed softly.

In fact, what Dongya was saying could have been explained in a more colloquial way, but he insisted on using this abstract metaphor, which greatly increased the communication cost.

However, there's nothing that can be done about it; it's not just Winter Raven, but many other extraordinary individuals also share this common problem with expression.

This is not because their expressions lack logical thinking, but because their understanding of the extraordinary has deepened, causing their rationality to abandon inaccurate "accurate scientific" descriptions and instead surrender to "impressionistic expression"... just like mixing spaghetti with No. 42 concrete.

Although Shangguan Yan was very dissatisfied with Dongya's way of speaking, she quickly forgave her. After all, it wasn't just Dongya; it seemed that all human beings were like that. In fact, Dongya's way of expressing herself was already considered very good among human beings, probably second only to those who possessed the names of gods and humans.

The named beings under the command of the God of Man are truly capable of speaking human language, which is why she enjoys dealing with Jin Fenglong.

Shangguan Yan started the car and drove out of the parking lot, constantly analyzing various situations in his mind as he drove.

Should she tell Xia Shou the message that Dong Ya gave her?
Of course, it's also possible that Xia Shou already knew. After all, the key intelligence this time was Mo Yusi's forbidden perception ability, and Zhou Yanyang (Death Notes) knew about this. He must have realized that this situation might occur, and may have even come to the same conclusion as Dong Ya.

Thinking about it this way, Xia Shou was indeed very concerned about the Scar Era, which had already ended, and Zhou Yanyang might have already told him everything.

However, Huangfu Zuoren's deduction notes have already reached a positive conclusion, confirming that Sprite will live out her life normally. If Sprite is really the fish that was hung up, wouldn't it be a waste of her life to live out her life normally?

It's important to understand that once a fish is caught, it has broken free from the historical cycle, and its lifespan and condition will not be reset when the historical cycle is reset.

Unless the mole is truly part of a group, there can only be one kind of forbidden knowledge: if someone knows how to fish, they can't possibly throw anything into the river.

Dongya said that throwing garbage into the river was forbidden to him.

If the other party has a gang, then Winter Crow is an accomplice, but in that case, why would Winter Crow bother to notify him?
That motive doesn't make sense.

Therefore, it is more likely that Sprite has not yet been caught, and the mole is catching someone else.

If we continue along this line of thought, then we need to make assumptions about other people.

Could it be the Grand Preceptor Adel? Or Adel's disciple, the next Grand Preceptor, Meliros? Or perhaps the Spear or Shield of the Rending King?
No, that's equally unlikely. The first batch of people from the Control Bureau defected to them, and they were also aware of the existence of the Deduction Notes. The Deduction Notes could clearly predict what each person might do in the future.

Even if it's impossible to predict accurately, it's still easy to identify who isn't following the original historical trajectory. Therefore, Sprite and his group would never have planned such a scheme. Even if Sprite really did cooperate with the traitor Moyusi, he would have chosen a fish that wouldn't be noticed by the people on the shore.

"Heh, Zhang Heping?" Shangguan Yan sneered.

If it were Zhang Heping, then the parts that didn't make sense before would make sense now.

Zhang Heping was rescued and is therefore free to move around. Since he was born from the union of a modern person and a resident of the old history, it is perfectly reasonable for him not to appear after the history has been reset. In fact, it is correct that he does not appear.

Why rescue Zhang Heping instead of the stronger Sprite?
On the one hand, the Bureau of Control was being cautious, and on the other hand, Zhang Heping had a wider range of operations and could use more flexible tactics. His existence was equivalent to the secret of being alive. As long as he found an opportunity, he could tell Sprite the truth about the cycle of history again.

Shangguan Yan hesitated whether to tell Xia Shou about this, but if Zhou Yanyang had already told Xia Shou, then he wouldn't need to tell him. And if Zhou Yanyang hadn't told him... then he felt it was better for Xia Shou not to know for now.

Shangguan Yan also had this consideration. If Xia Shou knew and took appropriate action, then the perfect disguise would be destroyed, and the traitor would be able to find out the truth that Xia Shou knew from the clues, and then probably would not make any further moves.

If they don't take action, there will be no conclusive evidence to confirm that the other party is the "fisherman" from the Moyu Division.

If we think about it a step further, there's even another explanation... that the real culprit wasn't the Fisherman who could separate things from the cycle of history, but someone else who set up a trap to manipulate their thinking and pin the label of traitor on the Fisherman.

As long as they make the slightest commotion, the real mole will succeed, and he will have a logical reason not to act, ultimately fabricating the story that the fisherman was the one who set up the scheme, but stopped at the last moment because he realized the risk.

In this way, the mole can impersonate another person even when there is no "fishing" tactic in place.

She had seen far too many of these kinds of intrigues and schemes during her time working at the Control Bureau.

This is also a mindset that many leaders in the regulatory bureau must have – it is better to wrongly accuse a thousand people, but one must always have the mindset of "presumption of innocence" in mind.

Without solid evidence, it would be foolish to assume that the real enemy has been eliminated simply because a suspected enemy target was killed based on mere speculation.

Winter Crow probably thought of this as well, which is why she told her the secret.

However... if Dongya had thought of this direction in which things would develop, why didn't she just say it clearly and directly?
Do you think she's smart enough to easily figure this out?

Or perhaps... Dongya originally intended to use her words to complete the deception of "the mole giving up the fight"?

Shangguan Yan sensed the complex and chaotic possibilities unfolding before her like tangled yarn, intertwined and influencing each other, making it impossible to calculate the consequences of pulling on any one strand.

For some reason, she caught a whiff of the scent of a horse in the woods.

(End of this chapter)